eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Schools also tend to rely on spoken communication to teach and written exams to assess learning. Visual cues, body movements provide alternate ways to learn concepts The virtual reality game used visual, audio and body movements to give students multiple ways to learn and express their knowledge on a subject.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“This series of surveys further our knowledge on what libraries are doing right and allows us to see where and how we can advocate for better understanding the roles libraries play in the lives of the average person. Just six exams are rated “strong” and four are rated “acceptable.”

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 278

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2015

“Now students can quickly see the areas they need to pay more attention to, and the data presented in My Class Insights should encourage them to fully invest in learning before an exam.”. This is the latest feature in a series of analytical tools and reports WebAssign will continue to release throughout the year.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The pandemic has created urgency to move beyond the status quo, and community-generated portraits of a graduate have swept the nation, highlighting the knowledge and skills many Americans want their young people to possess upon graduation. Advanced technology can now support more ambitious modes of teaching, learning, and assessment.

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Learning Students Critical Thinking Math 312

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. Those with social capital may wield it to maintain power and reinforce authority, often at the expense of those with less.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

Simultaneously, choice boards free teachers to focus their time and attention on working with individual students or small-group instruction, providing more personalized support or challenge. They are great for exam preparation, spiral review, spacing practice, and interleaving or mixing multiple topics to improve student learning.

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Blended Learning Math Exams Attention 195

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Building upon what Madeline Hunter calls an “anticipatory set,” instructors can try to spark curiosity, activate prior knowledge or help students lean into learning with a sense of expectation? In other words, too often we merely administer a high stakes exam or a pop quiz to check whether they watched a video.

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 191

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

A math teacher has a better chance of holding students’ attention during class time if they make technology part of the lesson. Web-based Applications Teachers can use the many web-based educational tools to plan and deliver lesson plans, activities, homework, and even exams. And it’s a great way to get more done.

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Math Student Engagement Mobile Devices Teachers 147

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2024

Whether they are having trouble getting to grips with core concepts, or they need a little extra assistance with exam prep, there are all sorts of reasons to take this route. Regional Relevance : Tutors need to have knowledge of the particular education system your child is participating in.

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Exams English Participation Intelligence 158

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

There were other games that were set in historical periods of time or set on other places on the planet, but you weren’t at an advantage if you had that knowledge readily in hand,” he says. Kenneth KellerResults from NAEP's geography exam from the past 25 years reveal that less than a third of students are proficient in the subject.

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History Exams Culture Knowledge 166

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We have decomposed knowledge points to the super nano level,” says Li. “We While the student tackles subjects online, the AI generates ongoing analysis of the student’s state of knowledge. Giving individualized attention is not easy for teachers,” says Kim. He was already using physics knowledge in real life!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

Knowledge is the new currency, and it’s out of reach for many. In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American.

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Science Beliefs Exams STEM 146

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Häkkinen leads the Accessibility Standards and Inclusive Technology Research Group at ETS, the 60-plus-year-old nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization that administers K-12 state exams along with the well-known GRE and TOEFL, among other tests. Sample audio: This is how I speak normally. Ready to try out Amazon Polly?

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Accessibility Disabilities Assistive Technology Learning Disabilities 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. I’ve been there often.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

To deal with the challenges of today and tomorrow, we need to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge necessary to adapt and overcome these challenges. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators. Founding President, Dasaran. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? In other words, exams do serve a purpose.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 95

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this research and development were happening behind the scenes, GlassLab won attention through its efforts to modify brand-name titles for use in a classroom setting. While games focus on problem-solving abilities, he claims, most exams test for content and knowledge—things that require more memorization than problem-solving skills. “If

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Learning Middle School Middle School Testing 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While enthusiasm can fade with age, at Qualcomm he noticed middle school students would still snap to attention when it came to the jobs they could one day have, the money they could make and their own interests. At Cajon Valley, students don’t actually take RIASEC exams until middle school, in line with most recommendations.

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Counselling Middle School Middle School Testing 215

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

That kind of pragmatic approach warps how people think about mathematical knowledge and ability, stripping away the beauty and meaning of math, he argues. It also leads to disparities, because it reduces performance in math to a number on an assessment exam, Su says. Painters experience is different from Robinsons.

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Math Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

We didn’t necessarily want attention,” Hernandez says, even though they got plenty from the media. “We Students feel as if they are not learning anything and that the program isn’t preparing them for the Regents exams they need to pass to graduate. A few days later, on Nov. 5, nearly 100 students left the school to protest Summit. “We

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 5, 2017

For instance, a search for ‘test prep rally’ on YouTube returns over 250 videos of school plays, lip synced songs, and ‘Slam the Exam’ concerts. After all, our children don’t get any noticeable, tangible benefits from these exams. Show what you know!’ But how seriously should the students take them?

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Testing Exams Motivation Participation 96

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Talking about relating learning experiences to real life brings to my attention how this group of young management students integrated their academic knowledge with their online profiles. This claim was validated when I graded the final exam, a rigorous three-hour subjective type of exam.

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 105

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

To deal with the challenges of today and tomorrow, we need to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge necessary to adapt and overcome these challenges. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators. Founding President, Dasaran. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 285

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Student exam performance then becomes a matter of cramming course content into short-term memory, without ever really mastering, considering, or owning the course material in a meaningful way. Students will perceive instructors as being knowledgeable on the topic as they are perceived to be able to lecture without notes.

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Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. Students have learned to pay attention during these discussions because quiz questions have been known to become exam questions.

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Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 105

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

They got accommodations, and they didn’t take the exam at their [usual] school. But typically, those students still take the exam in their home school where they’d be known. Obviously with my job, I have a lot of knowledge about the college-going process. A few students were able to switch the school where they tested.

Disabilities 116

Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Anecdotally assess their daily efforts and let that count as much as a summative exam that judges a point in time. Assess student effort, their attention to detail, their ability to transfer knowledge from earlier lessons to this one, their enthusiasm for learning, how often they tried-failed-retried, and that they completed the project.

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Failure Learning Students Critical Thinking 153

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

I fear that as teachers we quickly assume the next great technological innovation will be the silver bullet that makes teaching easy and effective, capturing the attention of all the students in our rooms and making our job easier. Groups or excited individuals taking their knowledge and experiences to make the world better.

Learning 113

Learning History Exams Knowledge 113

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. Teachers and states and students, obviously, are held very accountable for these tests.

Testing 167

Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Educators have come to realize that there are lots of reasons why a test score doesn’t reflect student knowledge. Habits, templates, and routines are much easier than reinventing the assessment wheel but a tool that results in passionate students committed to lifelong learning gets my attention. No need to look further.

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Learning Essay Students Testing 97

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Talking about relating learning experiences to real life brings to my attention how this group of young management students integrated their academic knowledge with their online profiles. This claim was validated when I graded the final exam, a rigorous three-hour subjective type of exam.

Academic Integrity 93

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 93

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. Students have learned to pay attention during these discussions because quiz questions have been known to become exam questions.

Quizzes 96

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 96

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Davidson: In 1869, a major attention-grabbing article appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. What's different about that is it rearranges the relationships of knowledge producer and knowledge consumer in the classroom. EdSurge: Throughout the book you tend to to put things into a historical context.

Education 138

Education Intelligence History Essay 138

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98